Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2017

Publication Title

Chemical Communications

Issue

82

First Page

11310

Last Page

11313

DOI

10.1039/C7CC06678C

Abstract

Inclusion of the dithiadiazolyl radical PhCNSSN• into the dynamically porous metallocycle [Cu2(L1)2Cl4], where L1 is the bidentate ligand 1,3-bis(imidazol-1-ylmethyl)-2,4,6- trimethylbenzene, has been achieved by gas phase diffusion. Single crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction, UV-visible spectroscopy, EPR and SQUID magnetometry studies confirm inclusion of the radical into this seemingly non-porous material, and illustrate the presence of antiferromagnetic coupling between the paramagnetic host and guest species. The radical guest is readily released by heating or by the addition of solvent (CH2Cl2).